I really enjoyed the DVD Import function but it was becoming old technology. My DVDs were archived in XviD and avi. I prefer x264 and mkv. I was also having issues archiving some of my DVDs with the bad track issues. I tried using dvdbackup but still had problems with the bad track issue. I was able to use vobcopy to make it do what I wanted. Here is what I did and the script I used.

The script seems to work well on my system. It has even archived some of my more difficult DVDs. There are a few things to be careful of if you use it. The first is I'm not a coder. I really don't have a clue. Also the -l switch in vobcopy is for hard drive partitions that support files greater than 4 gig. Make sure you have such a partition. I'm using ext4. This sequence requires a lot of hard drive space. It can use up to 20 gig. Also vobcopy is not fast. I used the -F 64 switch and it helped speed it up but it's not fast. I also ran into troubles getting vobcopy to see my dvd. So I used the -i /dev/dvd switch. It is definitely not the way to do it but it works. That may just be a issue on my machine. The mencoder setting are from brfransen's great script myth2x264. The script works in the /myth/tmp directory and transfers the end product to the /myth/video archive directory. The script I run from the /home/mythtv directory.

My system is a LINHES 6.03 box with a MSI 890 board and a X2 Phenom with all 4 cores unlocked and 2 gig of memory. This scripts runs on it without and issue so far.

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